Opening Spaces
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In A Cowrie ofHope Binwell Sinyangwe captures the rhythms of a people whose poverty has not diminished their dignity, where hope can only be accompanied by small acts of courage, and where friendship has not lost its value. ..
Tales of Tenderness and Power draws on writings which have roots in the author's own experience in Botswana. It reflects her fascination with the country's people and their history and her identification with individuals and their conflicting emotions. 'She enjoyed observing, smiling, forgiving or raging and then recording.' These tales reveal her affinity with human goodness and tenderness and he..
Gabriel Bukari is an out-of-work taxi driver living from hand to mouth in a poor suburb of Accra: honest, kind-hearted, and faithful to his wife. When he meets Mystique Mysterious, the `big man' who can get him a job, he is exposed to temptations he has never faced before. In this lively portrait of relations between rich and poor in urban Ghana, Benjamin Kwakye explores the seductive power of cor..
Drawing on the rich oral tradition of Southern Africa, Bessie Head uses the language and imagery of the story-telling tradition. The collection is carefully sequenced, focusing on village people from Botswana, and the status and position of women in Africa. ..
The Lovers collects together her short fiction of the 1960s and 70s, written mainly in Serowe, Botswana, and depicting the lives and loves of African village people pre- and post-independence. An earlier selection called Tales of Tenderness and Power was published in the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1990, while this replacement volume adds many previously unavailable stories collected here ..
`Convent morality's dead and gone. We're now living under a market economy'. In this way Carmina Evangelista, a member of Angola's ruling elite, justifies abandoning the socialist principles of her youth in favour of rampant capitalism. While the war-torn former colony collapses under the pressures of corruption and rivalry, buildings in Kinaxixi Square in the city of Luanda baffle the country's e..
